Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by streakfix on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:13AM
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They're advertising their own product on their own platform. What's wrong with that?
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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by sbarre on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:21PM
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I never said that them advertising their product was the problem. Please read more carefully.
If they advertised it with regular in-video ads like the rest of the ads, sure no problem, I am used to sitting through those and I accept ads as part of a good free viewing experience..
But they constantly interfere with the standard UI layout and experience to push these repetitive intrusive ads on me, that I have closed probably hundreds of times.
They should know by now that I am not going to sign up for it, so why continue to degrade the experience for me, when I am watching their ads as a free user?
They don't do this on the website so don't tell me "that's part of the trade" because it's only in the app they do this so aggressively and repeatedly.